Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of supporters and journalists that in her view, gun violence is the real emergency. Such a statement, in the context in which she made it, should send shivers down the spines of all who believe in personal liberty protected by the Constitution.

The Doomsday Scenario for the stock and housing bubbles is simple: the Fed’s magic fails. When dropping interest rates to zero and flooding the financial sector with loose money fail to ignite the economy and reflate the deflating bubbles, punters will realize the Fed’s magic only worked the first three times: three bubbles and the game is over.

Project Veritas has just unleashed another massive bombshell that could begin the process of bringing down the dishonest social media tech giants and their “content cartels.”

Posted at this link on ProjectVeritas.com, a former high-level Facebook employee has gone public with irrefutable proof that Facebook applies a “de-boost” algorithm to conservative content in order to suppress its visibility and sharing.

Shockingly, internal Facebook documents admit this is being done “leading up to important elections,” thereby admitting to criminal election meddling and fraud. This is the crime that Robert Mueller claims “the Russians” carried out against the United States of America. In reality, Facebook has been engaged in this election meddling crime for several years now.

Today, the newly minted anti-gun leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives passed its first gun control measure by a 240 -190 vote, offering further proof that anti-gun politicians are more interested in scoring cheap political points than doing their jobs and passing meaningful legislation that would make Americans safer.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back at Ivanka Trump over her criticism of the ‘Green New Deal’ and it’s false promises of guaranteed jobs and good wages.

The Democratic socialist’s plan includes a promise to provide “a job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security” along with “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”

The First Daughter took umbrage with the notion that Americans prefer handouts as opposed to earning their way through life.

“I ended up touting the Trump narrative for over a decade,” Cohen said in an opening statement. “Over time, I saw his true character revealed. Mr. Trump is an enigma. He is complicated as am I. He is both good and bad like us all. But the bad far outweighs the good and since taking office he has become the worst version of himself. He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind.”

What this tells me is New York Governor Cuomo is okay with a one-way massacre occurring at the scene of one of his “gun-free school zones” but not in any room where he is in attendance. In fact, not only is this imbecile okay with it, he finds the suggestion to protect “the children” with the same means of protection he brazenly uses, laughable. -- Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing laughable about what I just wrote, that a Governor of a U.S. state would not afford “the children” he supposedly wants to protect, the very same protection he insists upon for himself.

During the hearing, Plaskett could be seen shooting a look as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as he expressed frustration with not being provided a copy of Cohen's opening statement well in advance of the former lawyer's testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

"I just have a simple motion, Mr. Chairman," Jordan, the top Republican on the panel, says in a video clip of the segment that has since gone viral. As Jordan speaks, Plaskett turns to look in his direction and give what some social media users interpreted as an eye roll.

Jordan had repeatedly been expressing his frustrations with his Democratic counterparts for allowing Cohen to testify despite being sentenced to prison for lying to Congress in addition to other crimes. The former Trump lawyer is set to go to jail in May.

Liberal progressives are today working tirelessly to similarly convert all American gun-owners to outcasts, all “suspects,” all dangerous “dissidents.” Fellow citizens, who know what is good for themselves, will shun us completely, lest they share the same fate.

Fake news is a big problem. And as I’ve written, technology is about to make a lot worse. -- But censoring online content to combat fake news is equally problematic. And it doesn’t matter where on the political spectrum your opinions lie…it’s a problem for everyone.

To be technically accurate, Big Brother—aided and abetted by his corporate partners in crime—wants your data. That’s what we have been reduced to in the eyes of the government and Corporate America: data bits and economic units to be bought, bartered and sold to the highest bidder.

Despite the fact that more Americans than ever are now “covered by health insurance,” research has determined that “about 530,000 families each year are financially ruined by medical bills and sickness” – and the vast majority of these families have health insurance.

Black people, as well as homosexuals, should condemn these hoaxes, but so far, most have remained silent. If police are right that Smollett’s claims were a dastardly hoax, it will cause doubt to be cast on future real claims of assault based on race and sexual orientation. It also will have a negative impact on race relations. This is not something to be taken lightly. If Smollett is found guilty of a felony as he is charged, he should suffer heavy penalties, including jail time. There’s a lesson to be learned from one of Aesop’s fables, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”

The progressive group “By the People” has put together a pledge to impeach President Donald Trump and Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first members of Congress to sign it.

“By the People’ ‘came together because we saw that millions of Americans want the Trump Administration removed from office,” the organization’s “About Us” section reads. “We are committed to ending this administration and creating a country that lives up to its founding ideals.”

Tuesday morning, ABC News’ Ben Seigel reported that Omar and Tliab were the first to sign on to the impeachment effort.

Lawrence Davidson says the confusion of fiction and fact can often be used by people in authority to manipulate others and manufacture situations that lead to mass fear, discrimination and suspicion, and examines how this confusion can lead us in positive directions. >>

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced last week it would be probing Trump administration allies and their push to have the U.S. government share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia. The committee’s report explained how an organization called IP3 International developed a plan for U.S. companies to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia dubbed the “Middle East Marshall Plan.”

The report alleges Michael Flynn, while he was national security advisor to Trump’s presidential campaign and transition, and Thomas Barrack, chairman of the Trump Inaugural Committee and friend to the president, were proponents of the IP3 plan since at least the summer of 2015 and into the time Flynn was a White House advisor. Whistleblowers to the House committee were concerned that the plans, and administration officials’ links to them, would violate U.S. law.

US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is facing questions from the House Oversight Committee during a public hearing in Washington D.C.

Michael Cohen was earlier been sentenced to a three-year prison term for tax fraud and crimes that involved hush-money payments to two women Trump allegedly had affairs with, in violation of campaign laws, as well as lying to Congress.

He remains out of prison to continue cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign, as he investigates any potential conclusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The US House of Representatives voted 245 to 182 on Tuesday to revoke US President Donald Trump's emergency declaration that would enable him to build a wall on the US-Mexico border without Congressional approval. The measure now heads to the US Senate for consideration.

The vote came hours after lawmakers in the House decided to initially weigh the question of whether or not to overturn Trump's emergency declaration earlier Tuesday, voting 229 to 193 to move to the final debate on the issue.

Trump has claimed that by declaring a national emergency, he can appropriate funds for the wall's construction.

Former longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen unloaded on his former boss in congressional testimony on Wednesday, bringing a pair of $35,000 checks he cashed as partial reimbursement of 'hush money' he paid to alleged Trump paramours Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. In a hotly anticipated hearing tainted by Cohen's own admission he has lied to Congress in the past, he branded the president a 'racist,' a 'conman' and a 'cheat,' claim he heard Roger Stone tell then-candidate Trump about illicit campaign contacts with WikiLeaks and allege Donald trump Jr. secretly told his father ahead of time about an infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-tied Russian lawyer. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, has claimed in interviews that Trump paid Cohen a monthly retainer of $35,000 for legal services, as reimbursement for the campaign-year payoffs to the women, who have said they bedded Trump more than a decade ago.

Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican bill that would have threatened prison time for doctors who don't try saving the life of infants born alive during failed abortions, leading conservatives to wonder openly whether Democrats were embracing "infanticide" to appeal to left-wing voters.

All prominent Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls in the Senate voted down the measure, including Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The final vote was 53-44 to end Democratic delaying tactics -- seven votes short of the 60 needed.

This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes only the fifty richest current members of Congress and displays the difference between assets and liabilities for the member and his or her immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children. These figures can never be entirely accurate, because the financial disclosure requirements for the United States Congress are approximate by design.[1] The original documents for each member's disclosure are publicly available on a database website, maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics.[2] For 2014, the median net worth of Congresspersons was $456,522.[3] The full list may be found in the cited link.

In 2016, to rank among the top 50 wealthiest members of Congress required a net worth of at least $6.9 million.

Following the State of the Union address, I found the state of the nation surreal. I kept skimming past articles about the Democratic Party’s proposed economic stimulus packages, collectively known as the Green New Deal.

They propose to fund unsustainable sectors like solar panels—which are already heavily government-backed—by targeting more self-sufficient industries, like meat production. In order to earmark raiding the cookie jar of productive businesses to fund those that aren’t paying for themselves, Democrats have to demonize the target in order to implement punitive measures such as meat taxes.

I know the Green New Deal is based on non-truths and artfully doled misinformation, like the deforestation myth, but most people believe we are losing forest land in this country to the meat industry. That’s one of the lies told to them by our leaders in order to take advantage of the public support and vote. They need a mob to rob...

In the good old days when the terms Left and Right meant something the distinction between the two was clear. The Left believed that the resources and wealth of the state ought to be shared equitably. The Right’s position was that since only a few people in society are capable of handling capital properly, transforming prosperity into more prosperity, those few should be given a free hand and be taxed lightly to enable them to make the state more prosperous.

Former MK Michael Ben-Ari, who heads Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) and could return to Knesset thanks to a Netanyahu-blessed union with Jewish Home, has ties to non-governmental organizations linked to Meir Kahane's Kach Movement, outlawed in Israel and on US Treasury and State Department blacklists; to make matters worse, some of these NGOs get their funding from US Jews.

While the prime minister caused dismay among American Jewry by working to bring the racist rabbi's followers back to the Knesset, they know all too well that this is not an Israeli phenomenon, but rather a malignant tumor growing in its backyard that must be uprooted.

Threats to end religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions have reached an unprecedented level. State legislators across the country have filed approximately 70 bad vaccine bills this year, many of which seek to take away parents’ rights to make healthcare decisions for their children.

Last week, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb hinted in a CNN interview that if non-medical vaccine exemptions were not abolished at the state level, federal health agencies might intercede – making vaccine mandates into federal law.

In response to a recent measles outbreak two “emergency” vaccine-related hearings have been announced on Capitol Hill. This Wednesday, the Energy & Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the current measles outbreak and response efforts. https://energycommerce.house.gov

At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets and the technology for making nuclear weapons soon spread. The United States conducted its first nuclear test explosion in July 1945 and dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Just four years later, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test explosion. The United Kingdom (1952), France (1960), and China (1964) followed. Seeking to prevent the nuclear weapon ranks from expanding further, the United States and other like-minded states negotiated the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996.

One of the most likely places for a major power war or nuclear war is between India and Pakistan. They each have between 80 and 200 nuclear weapons. This is the most likely place where a major nuclear war could break out. It is important for us to understand the situation and the thinking of the two countries.

India and Pakistan have had four major wars in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. They also have had many border skirmishes and incidents.

It has suddenly become the most embarrassing painting in the Vatican. But the portrait of Cardinal Pell — unveiled in the Vatican just two and a half years ago — now threatens to engulf one of the oldest and grandest Catholic orders in controversy.

For I can disclose that the portrait of 77-year-old Pell, who has just been convicted of historic sex offences, was commissioned following a fundraising event in London held by the Knights of Malta, the Roman Catholic order founded more than 1,000 years ago to care for the poor and the sick.

The order’s senior officers have included some of the most eminent figures in society, including Field Marshal Lord Guthrie and the late Hugh van Cutsem, one of the Prince of Wales’s close friends.

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s signature is all that remains to include Colorado among the ranks of states prepared to abandon the electoral college system in favor of nationwide popular voting for the next presidential election.

Colorado would bring the number of states who have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) to 12, plus the District of Columbia. The NPVIC represents a coalition of states that have agreed to pool their presidential electoral votes for the majority candidate, regardless of individual state outcomes.

Update: Before Chairman Elijah Cummings could even finish his introductory statement, Republican Mark Meadows interrupted him to try and push through a motion to delay the hearing, claiming that Cohen broke committee rules by intentionally holding back his testimony.

The Times said Republican committee members will likely try this several times during the hearing to "break up the flow of the hearing" and "voice their objections" to the fact that Cohen was even allowed to appear.

A $35,000 check signed by Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2017 (after he became president) will be displayed during Michael Cohen's testimony to the House Oversight Committee today, a source close to Cohen tells Axios.

"It was another installment in the illegal hush money 'reimbursed' to Cohen ... for [the Stormy Daniels] hush money payoff," the source said.

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Excerpts from Cohen's opening statement, provided to the N.Y. Times and others, and confirmed for Axios:

"I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is."

"He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat. He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails."

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With the Mueller report having failed to find any collusion, the Democrats plan 'B' rests on Michael Cohen, who for whatever reason, is ready to bury Trump.

But the signed check is meaningless. We only have Cohen's word it went to pay off Stormy Daniels, and Cohen (who has already been disbarred) has a history of lying.

But Cohen is saying all the things the Democrats want to hear and I expect there will be a move in the House to impeach almost immediately.

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted on Tuesday night to ban all wings of Hezbollah due to its destabilizing influence in the Middle East, classing the movement as a terrorist organization.

The UK Labour Party allowed its MPs freedom to vote their conscience stating that there is “not sufficient evidence” that the organization meets proscription criteria and accusing the home secretary of taking the decision based on his “leadership ambitions.”

More importantly, it points to the impunity with which Washington big-shots normally operate. Manafort thought he was untouchable because he was the great Republican strategist, the legendary co-founder of Black, Manafort, and Stone, the most important Republican political operatives of the 1980s and 1990s. Craig is the same. He was Barack Obama’s White House Counsel. And he’s former Secretary of State John Kerry’s best friend. Like Manafort (and the Podestas and Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and a whole host of other big muckety mucks) he thought he was above the law.

Michael Cohen is set to deliver a blistering account of his dealings as President Donald Trump's longtime attorney Wednesday, casting his former boss as "a conman" and "racist' while tying the White House more directly than ever to multiple investigations that have shadowed Trump's presidency.

In a prepared statement to Congress, Cohen asserted that Trump knew in advance that WikiLeaks planned to release stolen emails damaging to political rival Hillary Clinton; that he personally reimbursed Cohen for an illegal hush-money payment to a porn star; and that the president indirectly encouraged him to lie to Congress about his pursuit of a potentially lucrative Trump Tower development in Moscow, even as Trump repeatedly denied any business interests in Russia throughout the 2016 campaign.

Cohen also suggested that Trump knew in advance of a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, headed by Donald Trump Jr., in which a Russian lawyer promised to provide damaging information on Clinton.

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal toured open air markets in Caracas full of food and supplies subsidized by the Venezuelan government, which debunk the “humanitarian crisis” lie spread by corporate media.

A panel was set to deliver testimonials and statements to advance the priorities of the Democrat congressional team selling the Green New Deal; except, well, the majority Democrats ran into a problem…. they didn’t show up for the hearing.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has handed down a momentous judgement that says Britain's colonial authority over the Chagos Islands is no longer legal. John Pilger, whose 2004 film, Stealing a Nation, alerted much of the world to the plight of the islanders, tells their story here.

The US House of Representatives has decided to weigh the question of whether or not to overturn US President Donald Trump's emergency declaration that would enable him to build a wall on the US-Mexico border without Congressional approval.

In a pre-dawn airstrike at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 12 Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets intruded into Pakistan’s airspace and dropped their payload on the top of a mountain at a terrorist training camp, allegedly belonging to a jihadist group that had claimed responsibility for the Pulwama attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir on February 14 in which more than 40 Indian soldiers had lost their lives.

Confidence in the media has hit rock bottom, with many news consumers believing that reporters file their reports before knowing the facts and 60 percent are under the impression that sources pay for stories, according to a depressing new survey of American journalism.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo used a deceptive edit on Monday evening to make it appear that President Donald Trump was referring to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in a press conference on the Charlottesville, Virginia, riots in 2017.

As I often say, “An armed individual is a citizen, an unarmed individual is a subject.” How would you classify the people of Venezuela? The more important question is how do you want to live in America? -- Never forget, there are no coincidences with socialism . . . it always starts — and ends — the same.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo used a deceptive edit on Monday evening to make it appear that President Donald Trump was referring to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in a press conference on the Charlottesville, Virginia, riots in 2017.